[109516] in Cypherpunks
Re: Use of EMP weapon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig McKie)
Sat Mar 27 15:48:47 1999
From: cmckie@ottawa.com (Craig McKie)
To: cypherpunks@ns.minder.net
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:36:07 GMT
In-Reply-To: <36FD37FE.4932785C@shentel.net>
Reply-To: cmckie@ottawa.com (Craig McKie)
http://www.stratfor.com/crisis/kosovo/sitrep.htm
"Reports indicate that U.S. forces used a top-secret warfare system to
temporarily knock out power grids and jam Serb military computers that
run the air defenses by wiping out computer data."
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:56:46 -0500, Frederick Burroughs wrote:
>As you can tell I'm a bit wound up over this Yugoslavia thing. When it
>started, the first day, there was an evening news report at 6:30 or
>7:00pm EST, March 24, 1999, must have been NBC or ABC, telling about the
>use of the B2 bomber. The report was interesting because it said that a
>new weapon was being used to disrupt electronics, I think it mentioned
>electric grids, computers and communications equipment would be
>temporarily affected. Sounded a lot like an electromagnetic pulse
>weapon. Never heard anything else about it, no retractions or
>confirmations. I'm guessing use would have been early in the operation
>and limited so as not to adversely affect NATO electronics. Would such a
>weapon have to be nuclear? Did anyone else see this report?
>
